· Private foundation
The Gragg Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k6 grants · $45k
- $10k–50k14 grants · $158k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ST VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY | $20,000 |
| MEALS ON WHEELS OF PALESTINE INC | $13,000 |
| THE STOCKPOT OF PALESTINE INC | $13,000 |
| PALESTINE COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY | $12,000 |
| SLOCUM HIGH SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| NECHES HIGH SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| CAYUGA HIGH SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| FRANKSTON HIGH SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| OAKWOOD HIGH SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| PALESTINE HIGH SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| PALESTINE JUNIOR SERVICE LEAGUE | $10,000 |
| ELKHART HIGH SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| LA POYNER HIGH SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| WESTWOOD HIGH SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| LIVING ALTERNATIVES OF PALESTINE | $9,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $113k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 15%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
22 repeat relationships: 19 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- PJPALESTINE JUNIOR SERVICE LEAGUE8× · 2017–2024 · $66k · revenue +72%
- LALIVING ALTERNATIVES OF PALESTINE8× · 2017–2024 · $65k · revenue +171%
- PCPALESTINE COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY8× · 2017–2024 · $62k · revenue +137% · 26% of their budget
Funded once
- NENORTHSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLone grant, 2017 · $1k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Food Pantry
Food pantry for needy in Franklin County, TX
Food Pantry
To provide emergency food for indigent families in the surrounding counties.
Providing food to individuals, families
To provide free food for those in need in the Pana, Illinois area
Emergency Food Pantry
Community food pantry
Assistance to the indigent
Food for families in need
Food Pantry
To provide free groceries, frozen meats, vegetables, fruits, dairy goods, breads and bakery to food insecure households in Pierce County and when mobile food pantry trucks are available provide the same to food insecure households in other…
How this is measured
9 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 9 of the 24 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS OF PALESTINE INC ↗
- Who funds PALESTINE JUNIOR SERVICE LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds LIVING ALTERNATIVES OF PALESTINE ↗
- Who funds PALESTINE COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY ↗
- Who funds PALESTINE COMMUNITY THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds CRISIS CENTER OF ANDERSON & CHEROKEE CO ↗
- Who funds ANDERSON COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds First Resource Center ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM FOR EAST TEXAS CULTURE ↗
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: United Way of East-Central Texas · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Gragg Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Gragg Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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